Courses are combination of Face to Face time and Online
Virtual
All online
They focused all on Hybrid
Objectives:
Provide students with alternative learning options
Challenge teaching staff to develop new ways of delivering instruction
FHS chose to create their own courses vs. purchasing courses
Started by training 4 teachers in the hybrid teaching model
For the pilot the teachers who had the training, implemented this with students in 1st hours and end of the class and the students were not given a choice. Met with parents, and of them only 3 asked to have their students moved to another class.
3 year plan
2010-2011
Piloted Online Learning (Champions Group)
Four Courses
AP U.S. History
Astronomy
English 11: Performing Arts Academy
Life Management Skills
Four teachers
Approximately 100 students in pilot
2011-2012
Doubled the number of courses from pilot year
AP U.S. History (2 semesters)
Astronomy
Economics
English 12: Health, Science and Technology
English 12: Performing ARts
English 12: 21st Century Media Literature
LIfe Management Skills
Surving Freshman Year
8 teachers
Approximately 300 students across 2 semesters
Three additional courses were developed, but not run (not enough interest)
2012-2013
Tripled number of HYBRID courses being developed
20 Hybrid Options
6 Hybrid Only choices
7 Virtual courses
Displays a list of courses for each category
The English 9: Intro to Online Learning -- This will be a virtual class but held in a school lab
35 teachers (105 teachers in the building)
A couple of courses where teachers are working together to create courses
Average of 25 students per course per semester
1175
Data
Showed some data that indicates there is no evidence that grades are negatively impacted by online courses as predicted by some people
Union Considerations
During planning included the following people to discuss
4 pilot teachers
online learning coordinator
High School Principal
Union President -
All parties agreed on the format for our program
No "canned" programs
Fraser teachers teaching Fraser curriculum
Hybrid courses use the same language as regular courses
Set-up of hybrid is up to the teacher
face-to-face is determined by teacher, example science teacher does content online and only face to face on labs
students who are struggling, can come in to classroom
How do you handle the logistics
open-campus permission form
Have to meet criteria (behavioral)to get permission slip
Have to meet classroom criteria - 70% to maintain open-campus rights
If they don't want to leave, they have about 60 spots in the media center and the media specialist observes them. If the teacher requires that they stay because of grades then teacher is required to be with them, either in the media center or takes them to the classroom
Main costs for Fraser for implementation
PD for teachers
Class size of 25
Online days - Teachers are available to students at that time -- like office hours
Goal - have every teacher doing something with blended (minimally blackboard assignments)
Online Learning Coordinator - teaches 1 less block then the rest of the teachers
"If you don't do something with virtual learning in your school, you will lose these students dramatically in the next 3-5 years" - Fraser Principal quote
Hope is that they will be able to get rid of e2020 eventually and have all credit recovery classes also taught by teachers
-Blended and Hybrid are synonyms for Fraser
Hybrid
- Courses are combination of Face to Face time and Online
VirtualThey focused all on Hybrid
Objectives:
FHS chose to create their own courses vs. purchasing courses
Started by training 4 teachers in the hybrid teaching model
For the pilot the teachers who had the training, implemented this with students in 1st hours and end of the class and the students were not given a choice. Met with parents, and of them only 3 asked to have their students moved to another class.
3 year plan
2010-2011
2011-2012
- Doubled the number of courses from pilot year
- AP U.S. History (2 semesters)
- Astronomy
- Economics
- English 12: Health, Science and Technology
- English 12: Performing ARts
- English 12: 21st Century Media Literature
- LIfe Management Skills
- Surving Freshman Year
- 8 teachers
- Approximately 300 students across 2 semesters
- Three additional courses were developed, but not run (not enough interest)
2012-2013Data
Union Considerations
Set-up of hybrid is up to the teacher
- face-to-face is determined by teacher, example science teacher does content online and only face to face on labs
- students who are struggling, can come in to classroom
How do you handle the logisticsMain costs for Fraser for implementation
Online days - Teachers are available to students at that time -- like office hours
Goal - have every teacher doing something with blended (minimally blackboard assignments)
Online Learning Coordinator - teaches 1 less block then the rest of the teachers
"If you don't do something with virtual learning in your school, you will lose these students dramatically in the next 3-5 years" - Fraser Principal quote
Hope is that they will be able to get rid of e2020 eventually and have all credit recovery classes also taught by teachers